It's Hard to believe, September 11

[larrysputnik]

It's hard to believe that it has been over a decade since the September 11th attacks on the US. I remember it like it was yesterday, and I still keep all of the victims and their families in my thoughts and prayers. Last year we visited the memorial in Shanksville, PA. It's really a well built tribute to the victims of the Flight 93 crash. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about the museum in New York, simply because it has been delayed from completion due to funding and no one can see it yet. I guess everything always comes down to money; even when it is a tribute to people who lost their lives in a tragedy. It aggravates me that a formal gathering place for learning about and remembering the people who, for nothing more than living and working in a country that has made enemies abroad, perished. I hope for their families' sake the museum can be finished and opened to the public sooner rather than later. They deserve that much respect.

[TJCoro]

Eleven Years!

Respect, indeed!



Perro, el Perro

Hey el P! I still remember the Alamo!

[Deano]

Amazing it's been 11 years. I remember it all very clearly, astonishing stuff. RIP all those who passed.

[Wardjrz]

It's one of those "Do you remember what you were doing" dates.

I was training a group of ex financial services people who had relatives and ex colleagues over there. I think we'd have lost the day anyway but there was a lot of frantic telephone calling to make sure that loved ones were safe.
Thankfully no-one on my watch lost anyone and it is a shame that anyone had to die at all.

That footage still makes my stomach churn whenever I see it which, thankfully, is not very often as I do try to avoid it whenever I know it is on.

[Dherm]

I remember being at work and hearing people talking about planes hitting buildings and I honestly thought they were talking about a movie. Until one of the PA's asked if I had seen the footage. We all went to the boardroom and I remember watching the horror unfold. It never ceases to amaze me the atrocities mankind is capable off.

[monkey66]

I remember it very well, and 7/7. Amazing the challenges of days like that, stay with you for life. My thoughts go out to the friends and family who live with it every day.

NB - I am writing this from Heathrow.

[TJCoro]

Never Forget!

I recently heard a story about a man who was on the 22nd floor of the 2nd Twin Tower when it started to collapse, so he curled up on the floor in a corner and awoke starring at blue sky on a slab of concret which was resting on a pile of rubble several stories high. They are calling him the 9/11 Surfer and his story is being featured tonight on the Discovery Channel on American television.

Don TJ was on assignment in Washington, D.C. at the time, just across the river from the Pentagon when the plan hit the Pentagon. He was evacuated to a neighboring states.


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